#Iraq Jun 10 2020 Parliament passed non-binding resolution asking foreign forces to leave Iraq Trump rejected any US military withdrawal from Iraq and threatened sanctions if Iraq asked musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-kazemi-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2020 Parliament reversed 10% pay and pension cuts made by cabinet to reduce budget during economic crisis musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-kazemi-...

#iraq Jun 10 2019 Report 116 abandoned villages in south Kirkuk and northeast Diyala largely due to IS musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#iraq Jun 10 2019 Nechirvan Barzani became new KRG president His cousin Masrour Barzani was named prime minister the next day Solidified KDP control over KRG musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

#iraq Jun 10 2017 Mosul govt ruled that IS families not allowed to return to city musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#iraq Jun 10 2017 Gorran said wanted KRG independence but referendum was illegal Said parliament had to pass referendum Parliament closed by KDP since Oct 2015 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#iraq Jun 10 2017 Iran said it was against KRG independence referendum and wanted a united Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Jun 10 2017 IS launched counterattack with suicide car bombs vs Federal Police on edge of Old City in Mosul while 150 fighters floated down Tigris to join with other fighters to attack police from rear musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Jun 10 2016 Foreign Min Jaafari said any abuses in Fallujah done by individuals and Hashd not responsible musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Jun 10 2016 Report Iraqi officer who fought in Fallujah said had to pay $2000 bribe to get M1 tank to support his unit Didn’t pay Got a Russian tank instead with no driver musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Jun 10 2016 Sadrist mobs attacked Dawa ISCI Reform Movement Badr offices in Basra Maysan Wasit Dhi Qar Najaf Karbala Muthanna Sadr later denied his followers responsible musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Jun 10 2015 DNO said couldn’t sustain investment or oil production in KRG unless it was paid KRG behind payments due to budget dispute with Baghdad over oil musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2015 AmnestyIntl report Jan 2015 PKK & Syrian People’s Protection Units attacked 2 Arab villages in Ninewa Killed 21 civilians Many executed Town burned Looted Locals told not to return Were revenge attacks for IS crimes vs Yazidis in Sinjar musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Parliament said it would have an emergency session on the fall of Mosul on Jun 12 Didn’t happen musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Report state owned Turkish Energy Company was in talks with Exxon about its contracts in KRG Exxon wanted to be assured that Turkey would allow independent KRG oil exports despite objections of Baghdad musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Iranian Revolutionary Guard said to be mobilizing and entering Iraq to aid govt musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 PM Maliki called for militias to help fight insurgents Kataib Hezbollah sent to Mosul Ended up in Samarra Salahaddin Maliki had already been using militias in and around Baghdad musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Peshmerga moved into Kirkuk city and Hawija in Kirkuk Tuz Kharmato in Salahaddin Khanaqin in Diyala after ISF began retreating Lost most of Khanaqin to insurgents musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 When word spread that Mosul fell ISF began deserting in Tikrit and Baiji musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 ISIS seized Shirqat Suleiman Beq Albu Ajeel Baiji weapons depot without a fight Also took Hawija Zab Abbasid Riyad in SWKirkuk Started attacks outside of Tikrit Attacked Abu Ghraib in Baghdad musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 ISIS took Badush prison Ninewa Separated Sunni from Shiite prisoners Executed 670 Shiite prisoners over next few days musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 ISIS set up checkpoints around Mosul to arrest and execute members of ISF and Jabour tribe musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 PM Maliki asked US for military aid to fight ISIS Maliki claimed US didn’t help until August but US started sending supplies next day musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 PM Maliki declared that government would retake Mosul in 24 hrs musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Defense Ministry said it was sending Golden Division to retake Mosul Never arrived musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 PM Maliki asked peshmerga to move into Mosul but city already fell Had rejected Kurdish offer of help earlier musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 ISIS and Naqshibandi took Mosul after 6 days of fighting Gov Nujafi fled to Dohuk 500,000 began fleeing city musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Jun 10 2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of staff fled Mosul to KRG causing general desertion musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2013 Report Militias more open about fighting in Syria Funerals all the time for men killed in Syria Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Kataib Hezbollah 2 main groups in Syria Some militiamen sent to Iran for training by Quds Force musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2013 Report Army’s 16th Bgd ½ Arab ½ Kurd Kurdish soldiers stopped taking orders KRG said it would take Kurds and incorporate them into peshmerga and take control of area in Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin they were stationed in US tried to mediate musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2012 Pres Talabani rejected no confidence letter against PM Maliki claiming not enough MPs Number of MPs went from 176 to 160 to 157 Needed 163 MPs Talabani said only 160 MPs on no confidence letter were valid Talabani trying to block vote musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2011 Natl Sec Adv Donilon told US Iraq cmdr Gen Austin and Amb Jeffrey they could enter talks with Iraq over US troops staying post Dec 2011 withdrawal date but couldn’t mention troop levels musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2011 Allawi attacked PM Maliki calling him a liar hypocrite and agent of Iran musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2011 Pro-Maliki tribesmen and plainclothes police attacked protesters in Baghdad Burned images of Allawi ISF did nothing 1000s protested in Basra Diwaniya Nasiriya Najaf Kirkuk Karbala Mosul Hillah demanding reforms services early elections musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2010 Sahwa in Hawija Kirkuk said Interior Min agreed to hire 1500 fighters into North Oil Company police Head of Kirkuk police said if sahwa got jobs an equal number of Kurds and Turkmen should also get jobs with oil company musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2010 Finance Min Jabr said he got letter from cabinet to pay oil companies operating in KRG Part of move by PM Maliki to win over Kurds so he could get 2nd term musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2010 Protests in Baghdad Babil Qadisiyah Nasiriya Najaf Kirkuk Karbala Ninewa Basra Chanted against PM Maliki and for better services musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2010 State of Law merged back with other Shiite parties after elections in National Coalition giving them 159 seats so PM Maliki could get 2nd term musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...

#Iraq Jun 10 2009 Oil Ministry said it would not pay oil companies working in KRG musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2006 Insurgents killed 60 police recruits in Ramadi U.S. forces cordoned off city and 1500 reinforcements sent musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-maliki-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2005 Police commander kidnapped 11 Sunnis from Adhamiya Bodies found 2 days later in Sadr City musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

#Iraq Jun 10 2005 Gen Petraeus told Inter Min Jabr about abuses of Wolf Brigade full of Badr militia Jabr denied any wrongdoing musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-jaafari...

#Iraq Jun 10 2004 US gave up hope that NATO forces would be sent to help in Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Report South Oil Company Rumaila and Zubayr oil fields in Basra looted Interim Oil Min Ghabban was trying to remove Baathists from Oil Min Wanted to maintain state run system musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Report Al Qaeda’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed captured by US said that Al Qaeda did not work with Iraq musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraq-al-qa...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Head UN inspector Blix accused Pentagon of trying to undermine him during inspections musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/un-weapons...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 State Dept memo said Italian docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Rumsfeld said he was confident Iraq’s WMD would be found musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Bush said invading Iraq was right decision because of its WMD programs musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Jun 10 2003 Bush told cabinet he was convinced Iraq had WMD musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...